To ring in the year of the boar we had a whole of week of Lunar New Year themed events at school. To cap it all off the kids wore their Hanbok (traditional Korean dress) on Friday and we played a bunch of Korean games and ate ddeok-guk. Ddeok-guk is soup with lots of Ddeok (rice cake) in it....not my favorite. Koreans are supposed to eat it on Sol-nal and it ages them one year. Now, I'm 27 in this country, but 25 elsewhere.
We did some Korean wrestling in the library, of course we teachers had to show the kids how its done! Sadly, Miriam won the match, but then Shaun defeated her. The kids had a really fun time playing around, too, once we let them! To see the death match between Shaun and Miriam click the link.
The kids also made lucky bags. Since hanbok don't have pockets, traditionally the men and women would carry small purses to keep money and stuff in. The translation of the Chinese character on the bags means "lucky bags." Here you can see William and Jinny holding their bags proudly.
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